Identifying Entrustable Professional Activities in Internal Medicine Training

Identifying entrustable professional activities in internal medicine training.

BACKGROUND Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) can form the foundation of competency-based assessment in medical training, focused on performance of discipline-specific core clinical activities. OBJECTIVE To identify EPAs for the Internal Medicine (IM) Educational Milestones to operationalize competency-based assessment of residents using EPAs. METHODS We used a modified Delphi appro...

Entrustable professional activities for gastroenterology fellowship training.

Office of Academic Affairs and Education and Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut; Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, and The Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative...

Entrustable Professional Activities for Pathology

The ABCs of entrustable professional activities: an overview of 'entrustable professional activities' in medical education.

Consultants regularly need to decide whether a trainee can be entrusted to perform a clinical activity independently. 'Entrustable professional activities' (EPA) provide a framework for justifying and better utilising supervisor entrustment decisions for trainee feedback and assessment in the workplace. Since being proposed by Olle ten Cate in 2005, EPA are emerging as an integral part of many ...

Entrustable Professional Activities (epas): the next Step.